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...would take to kill the entire bill--if the Senate passed a "non-severability" amendment, the great deal breaker that meant that if any part of the bill was ruled unconstitutional, the entire thing would be thrown out. Wellstone's amendment was so constitutionally dubious that it invited the courts to strike it down--and, potentially, the whole soft-money ban along with it. For McConnell, that made it perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day Dawning | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

When those guys get rocked, the Sox will have Rolando Arrojo (10-11, 5.63) and creaky recycled projects David Cone (4-14, 6.91) and Bret Saberhagen as dubious replacements...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This is the Year | 4/3/2001 | See Source »

...would take to kill the entire bill - if the Senate passed a "non-severability" amendment, the great deal breaker that meant that if any part of the bill was ruled unconstitutional, the entire thing would be thrown out. Wellstone's amendment was so constitutionally dubious that it invited the courts to strike it down - and, potentially, the whole soft-money ban along with it. For McConnell, that made it perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day or a False Dawn? | 3/31/2001 | See Source »

...publicist's words, was a musician who really had been a major contributor to late-'60s-early-'70s rock, and he was being shilled in a parking lot on the coincidence of a current movie title being the same as his band's name 30 years earlier! And the dubious claim of being an inspiration to a one-hit-wonder teen group whose claim to fame four years ago was a song called "Mmmmmmbop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing the Oscar Bash | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...employer should relegate workers to bad jobs. For-profit organizations plead market competition to justify their increasing use of temporary and contract workers. Regardless of the dubious validity of this rationale, profits are not a consideration for non-profit organizations--particularly educational institutions. Given Harvard's long history and unparalleled wealth, survival is hardly an issue. Why then should Harvard emulate for-profits in its treatment of non-professional staff? Any growth of non-standard workers at Harvard and our University's unwillingness to commit to a living wage and standard benefits for all its de jure and de facto...

Author: By Barbara Reskin, | Title: Bad Jobs at Harvard | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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